Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe

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  1. 3d ago

    Jimmy Carter is Born Again, Again...Again (Cast Iron Balls #72)

    The best college football podcast available on your radio dial is back with a preview of Week 1 action, the other sports news of the week, and the long-awaited return of Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by joining the conversation on our Substack or you can send us an email here. Enjoy! Show RundownOpen — Abe Live-Bets the Games!5:00 — WGAS News, Sportsbag Edition!46:17 — The Sports-Adjacent Question of the Week!53:34 — Did CBS News’ Senior National Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?!59:01 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot1:11:27 — 2026 CIB Football Pick’em Contest1:20:06 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week, Live from Plains, Heaven 1:25:42 — Wrap-up! Relevant Linkage can be found by visiting https://brainiron.substack.com/, where, if you would like to support this and the other podcasting and blogging endeavors of the Brain Iron dot com media empire, you can also become a paying subscriber. The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com. The background music for Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week is “Bama Country” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

  2. Aug 27

    The Return of Sports! (Cast Iron Balls #71)

    It’s a Week Zero College Football Spectacular! CIB is here to get you ready for the weekend of (mostly terrible) games as we ramp up for what’s sure to be another exciting and chaotic season of the best sport. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by joining the conversation on our Substack or you can send us an email here. Enjoy! Show RundownOpen — Abe Live-Bets the Games!5:53 — WGAS NewsBag, Sports Edition!38:12 — The Sports-Adjacent Question of the Week!42:27 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot!57:38 — 2026 CIB Football Pick ‘em Contest!1:08:59 — Wrap-up! Relevant Linkage can be found by visiting https://brainiron.substack.com/, where, if you would like to support this and the other podcasting and blogging endeavors of the Brain Iron dot com media empire, you can also become a paying subscriber. The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

  3. Aug 25

    Defining Psychotic Murder Moms Down (CIB #287)

    This week we’re lamenting the TikTok’ing public’s evident solidarity with a child-murderer, Abe reads self-help but only ironically he swears, and we harrumph our way through the news and culture of the week, as usual. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by joining the conversation on our Substack or you can send us an email here. Enjoy! Show RundownOpen — Lindsay Clancy, American EveryMom13:40 — Abe, Book Club Infiltrator, Self-Help Enthusiast30:08 — Supreme Court decides not to preempt Trump administration from doing the bad thing38:27 — NVIDIA chips used in Russian war drones43:20 — Data Center Fight!52:15 — ESPN finds its next Dan Patrick1:06:40 — America’s Favorite Game Show1:14:32 — Wrap-up! Relevant Linkage can be found by visiting https://brainiron.substack.com/, where, if you would like to support this and the other podcasting and blogging endeavors of the Brain Iron dot com media empire, you can also become a paying subscriber. The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Brains were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

  4. Aug 20

    In the Thrall of the Fabulists (CIB #286)

    This week we take a look at a few different reactions to the Jason Arday story and try to sort out the reasons why fabulism is treated differently by different cultural tribes, and what that might have to do with shame and belonging. That and our usual assortment of other nonsense and complaining, of course. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by joining the conversation on our Substack or you can send us an email here. Enjoy! Show RundownOpen — Sometimes you start the show talking to the robit about theoretical birthday distributions3:10 — Kitty litter as an appliance in the CONNECTED HOME14:00 — $220 to watch the big game on a big TV22:46 — Are we allies with North Korea now?31:39 — Actual News About Fake Polls in Fake News46:04 — Many takes on the Jason Arday story1:26:40 — Did CBS News’ Senior National Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?1:37:38 — Wrap-up! The End of Oak Street; Spiderman: Far From Home1:50:54 — Sometimes you end the show by asking “Did Nietzsche or Kelly Clarkson do a better job popularizing ‘what doesn’t kill me makes me stronger’” Relevant Linkage can be found by visiting https://brainiron.substack.com/, where, if you would like to support this and the other podcasting and blogging endeavors of the Brain Iron dot com media empire, you can also become a paying subscriber. The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Brains were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

  5. Aug 14

    Medically Necessary Elective Podcast Surgery (CIB #285)

    Cast Iron Brains returns from a week at the beach and having survived an attempted electrocution by a household appliance to discuss the news and our lives and whatever else we feel like complaining about, in keeping with our idiom. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by joining the conversation on our Substack or you can send us an email here. Enjoy! Show RundownOpen — Barack Hussein Obama infringing on BrainIron Multinational Media Empire turf12:28 — Abe [fails to be] In the World, goes to Asheville instead; Bob family time at the Jersey Shore49:43 — Reflecting Pool-Gate gets even Trumpier1:07:34 — Molly Jong-Fast on her plastic surgery1:31:21 — Did Mark Strassmann, CBS News’ Senior National Correspondent, Get Off a Good One?1:37:34 — Wrap-up! Spiderman 11; various Avengers movies; Dungeon Crawler Carl Relevant Linkage can be found by visiting https://brainiron.substack.com/, where, if you would like to support this and the other podcasting and blogging endeavors of the Brain Iron dot com media empire, you can also become a paying subscriber. The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Brains were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

  6. Jul 28

    A Crisis of Rowdy Roddy Piper (CIB #284)

    Is there actually more of a “crisis of meaning” in the smartphone AI age? Is it more likely the case that the vast majority of humans always been perfectly happy to accept whatever meager meaning happens to come their way, with a small, hand-wringing set of elites always freaking out that the latest thing is bad? If everyone is content to watch individualized content on their solipsism machines, is it just kinda rude of Rowdy Roddy Piper to come barging in trying to wake everybody up? Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by joining the conversation on our Substack or you can send us an email here. Enjoy! Show RundownOpen — Last Out the Door, Like a Hero16:03 — Cat arsonists in Italy20:51 — AI content taking over1:03:10 — Psychos are travelling the world with giant television mugs1:11:46 — Did Mark Strassmann, CBS News’ Senior National Correspondent, Get off A Good One?1:18:26 — Wrap-up! Hadestown; The Hunger Games; Airport; The Tommyknockers Relevant Linkage can be found by visiting https://brainiron.substack.com/, where, if you would like to support this and the other podcasting and blogging endeavors of the Brain Iron dot com media empire, you can also become a paying subscriber. The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Brains were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

  7. Jul 21

    The Last* Trump Summer (CIB #283)

    We’re here with a rundown of the various things our insane clown president is getting up to this summer, checking in on Mark Strassmann after a few weeks away, and Abe endorses polytheism. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by joining the conversation on our Substack or you can send us an email here. Enjoy! Show RundownOpen — World Cup wrap-up, fixing global sport with F**k Island19:18 — The Last Trump Summer Vacation1:10:50 — Did CBS News’ Senior National Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One? And the Iran war continues apace1:21:08 — Wrap-up! Abe sees The Odyssey; Incest Dragons; The Sheep Detectives Relevant Linkage can be found by visiting https://brainiron.substack.com/, where, if you would like to support this and the other podcasting and blogging endeavors of the Brain Iron dot com media empire, you can also become a paying subscriber. The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Brains were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

  8. Jul 15

    Woodstock '26 (CIB #282)

    It’s state tournament recap time! Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by joining the conversation on our Substack or you can send us an email here. Enjoy! Show RundownOpen — Abe vs. The Peachtree Road Race9:17 — Youth Beisbol Tournament Extravaganza1:31:15 — Lindsey Graham is dead1:42:42 — The Iran war is back, baby!1:47:52 — AccuWeather Push Notifications of the Week1:51:28 — Wrap-up! The Invite; King Sorrow Relevant Linkage can be found by visiting https://brainiron.substack.com/, where, if you would like to support this and the other podcasting and blogging endeavors of the Brain Iron dot com media empire, you can also become a paying subscriber. The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Brains were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

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